Visual Studio 6.0 due this summer

Microsoft hopes to have the next version of its software and Web
development suite, Visual Studio 6.0, released this summer. Interestingly,
this is actually only the second release of Visual Studio (the first was
"Visual Studio 97") but Microsoft is bumping up the version number to
equal that of its main components, such as Visual Basic and Visual C++.
Visual Studio also includes Visual J++ (Java), Visual InterDev (Web
development), Visual FoxPro (database), and Visual SourceSafe (team
development support).

"We will be standardizing on the name Visual Studio 6.0 for the next
release," said Tod Nielsen, Microsoft's general manager of developer
relations.

Details of the new suite will emerge in the coming weeks. What is know now
is that the old Developer Studio IDE has been dropped in favor of a new
environment based on the one used by Visual Basic 5.0. The new Visual Basic
development environment--code-named "Vegas"--will be used by all Visual
Studio 6.0 tools. For a look at this new environment, check out the What's
New section of my "Implementing Microsoft Visual InterDev" Web site